Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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First LP released by american Deathrock band Mighty Sphincter, from Phoenix, Arizona.
This is my favorite Mighty Sphincter album and the darkest one, in my opinion.
In the mid-’80s, after enigmatic lead singer Ron Reckless left the band, Mighty Sphincter trudged on as a three-piece. Clark assumed vocal duties, with the late Joe Albanese on bass and Greg Hynes in his familiar seat behind the drums. After releasing The New Manson Family on the premier local punk and noise-rock label at the time, Placebo Records, in 1986, the band decided to reach out to Bil Yanok to help round out the lineup.
The story of Mighty Sphincter is crazy enough, but the thought of Mighty Sphincter playing at a venerable old venue in London like Hammersmith Odeon is nothing short of mindboggling. Even more so is the fact that there exists a good-quality cassette recording of the show lost for almost 30 years.

Tracklist:
00:00 The New Manson Family
03:24 Drop Dead
05:51 Blood Banquet
09:22 Good Morning
11:32 Helter Skelter
15:00 Bedlam
17:17 Rich & Dead
21:38 Centerfold Murders
24:48 Genuine Argyle
26:58 Stretching Heads & Tails
29:14 Final Reward
31:19 Kings
34:05 Constrictrions In E Major

Lineup
Doug Clark: guitar, vocals
Joe Albanese: bass, vocals
Greg Hynes: drums, vocals

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